INVENTORY
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Days 1-5. February, 2023.
INVENTORY List:
-paintings
-cash
-mirrors
-litepanels
-rubber plant
-plexiglass cube
-blue security blanket
-black satin dress
-destroyer
-cat person
-artist in studio
-parallel structures
-Kirk circle
-a tumultuous gathering
-portraiture
INVENTORY
A running list of objects, structures, poses, gestures, expressions, actions and characters that I have previously worked with, formed the script for INVENTORY.
The project prioritized liveness, making visible incremental shifts that take place over time through accumulation and aggressive repetition. A wide range of performance activity and approaches were evident, as structured sequences occurred simultaneously along with task-based actions, choreographed movements and play.
I actively directed throughout, making responsive decisions through a system of cues with the performers. In real-time, actions and gestures were assigned, wardrobe changes made, sounds and music played, presence and affect modulated, spatial structures determined, and sequences ordered and timed.
Emerging from this process over the accumulated twenty-five hours of performance was an installation of scattered shards, scraps, and cat and dog-objects, long passages of abstract actions, along with moments of narrative and psychological drama. Many Inventory items were quoted, re-staged, worn, played with or ruptured - and a whole new inventory came to light.
INVENTORY - February 15th - 19th, 2023. Continuous live performance during opening hours, 12PM - 5PM. Presented as part of: Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment - a series of commissioned projects, curated by Kate Gilmore and Jonah Westerman. The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY. Hard Return: Alix Pearlstein • Neuberger Museum of Art • Purchase College
Cast: Blake Albano, Angelique Araya, Nicki Castillo, El Debattista, Theadora Frost, Hazel Grant, Hannah Klein, Hayden Nork, Dixie O'Connell, Sophie Ortiz, Eliel Pacheco, Tess Walsh. With Guest Stars: Christen Clifford, Brenna Palughi, Mike Smith
DP: Paul Chin. Sound: John Chin. PA: Lily Reiley and Eliel Pacheco
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Day 1. February 15, 2023.
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Day 2. February 16, 2023.
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Day 3. February 17, 2023.
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Day 4. February 18, 2023.
INVENTORY. Performance Documentation: Excerpts Compilation. Day 5. February 19, 2023.